Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.